Not on a daily basis, but I like to browse freenet occasionally. It’s interesting that sites uploaded to freenet are up as long as people visit them, no matter if the original uploader is long gone. It acts as a decentralized wayback machine.
Beware that iirc, unlike Tor and I2P, Freenet leaks your IP, so I recommend to use a VPN.
Edit: I was talking about the “old” Freenet, recently renamed to Hyphanet. I haven’t used the new Freenet, which apparently is different in design. https://www.hyphanet.org/freenet-renamed-to-hyphanet.html
Beware that iirc, unlike Tor an[d] I2P, Freenet leaks your IP, so I recommend to use a VPN.
If it’s using basic peer-to-peer tech, I suspect you may be right. Been awhile since I looked into it, and as I recall it wasn’t really built for privacy so much as another way to share info with few limitations (hence the free in freenet), so it’d make sense if it did.
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I’ve been off and on since the way back times. It seems to be frozen for some while ever since the original dev ‘Toad’ went off to do his own thing a few years back. Conceptually it’s a neat idea but suffers greatly from a ‘slowest link in the chain’ problem when looking to fetch sites since any given node only knows their immediate peer rather than the true source on either end of a request.
Never heard of it. Got a link?
